Exposing police misconduct can be risky, even for a cop.
“Crime By The Numbers,” a short documentary directed by Don Argott for FiveThirtyEight and ESPN Films’ Signals series, tells the story of Adrian Schoolcraft. Schoolcraft, as a New York Police Department officer, blew the whistle on the NYPD’s abuse and misuse of CompStat, a system to track crime trends in New York City.
But in trying to fix the injustices of New York’s policing system, Schoolcraft experienced that injustice personally.
How The NYPD Abused Citizens In The Name Of Data, And How One Cop Exposed It
